From the Editorial Office

The Journal continues to receive a large volume of submissions. Most papers are sent anonymously to two expert external referees. When papers are sent to referees, the Journal aims at a six month response time for the author. For papers not sent for external review, the Journal aims at a three month response time for authors. This past year the Journal received 250 papers, of which it accepted 6.4% for publication.

All papers are given an initial anonymous review in the editorial office. Promising papers are sent to an editor in their area, who may then send them (anonymously) to two referees. Papers with two strong referees' reports and the endorsement of the editor are sent to the editorial board as a whole, still anonymously, for discussion and a vote on acceptance. The current backlog of accepted papers is currently about one year.

Because of the large number of papers, the Journal is normally able to consider papers of no longer than 10,000 words. Longer papers may be returned to authors with a request to shorten them or to submit them elsewhere.

CJP is now available through a variety of electronic aggregators, some for profit and some not for profit. In terms of revenue, it matters greatly to the Journal how we are accessed electronically through libraries, with nonprofit aggregators like Project Muse and JSTOR offering us the best revenue sharing arrangements. In the future, it is our view that scholars and libraries will need to pay more attention to how they are receiving and using journals in electronic form, particularly independent journals like CJP.

CJP is also available at its own website, on an open access model, but with an eighteen month embargo on current content to protect our revenues from other sources:

http://www.canadianjournalofphilosophy.com

Almost all authors are now submitting their papers electronically. This enables us to process papers more quickly, within the constraints mentioned above. Papers should be sent to Marda Schindeler, the Journal's Executive Secretary, at cjp@uleth.ca, in either Word or WordPerfect, and formatted according to the Journal's directions for authors.

Finally, the Editorial Board wishes to thank Robert Batterman and Christine Tappolet for their years of service to the Journal as editors. The Board also welcomes Luc Faucher of the Université du Québec à Montréal, who joins the Board as of July.